Baghead (2023)
6/10
What Walt's Watching
29 February 2024
From the producer of "IT" comes "Baghead".

That should be a red flag in itself when filmmakers have to ride on the coat tails of previous successes.

Freya Allan as "Iris Lark" inherits a property that comes with a special tenant who lives in the basement, a shape shifting creature wearing a hessian bag over its head (hence the movies title) who's spiritually tied to the Queens Head Pub.

Only problem with the dilapidated Pub is you can't escape this place or "Baghead".

Kind of like an Eagles song about a certain Hotel in California.

If your name is on the title deed you become the guardian of this ghoul and have some control over her so long as you play by the rules of the game.

If not there will be consequences.

Here's the deal: A long dead witch burned at the stake gives you 2 minutes to talk to your dead friends/lovers etc as it transforms into them by eating one of the deceased loved ones prized possessions...exceed that time limit and the guardian loses control over "Baghead".

Anne Muller as "Baghead" is well known for her weird film choices including "Babylon Berlin".

You are the one thing that stands between "Baghead" escaping into the outside world.

Question is will the curse end with "Iris Lark".

Her father "Owen Lark" (Peter Mullan "Ozark") the previous owner of the haunted pub thought it would end with him, but he became more cremated than a Tesla owner after a run in with "Baghead".

Director Alberto Corredors' "Baghead" should have remained an award winning short, fantasy, horror which would have been right at home in "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" on Netflix instead of a feature film.

I say that because it runs out of oxygen after an hour, even though it feels fresh, it's not fully fleshed out. (pardon the pun) Despite this movie attracting some real talent to the project including Ned Dennehy as "Solicitor" and Saffron Burrows as "Catherine", "Iris" mother.

Granted its a Horror Movie and this M rated picture may freak some people out.

After all if you talk to the dead you must pay the price.
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